Wholeness

Source: Robert Dilts

Access a contemplative or spiritual state.

Imagine, from third person, experiencing an ideal state of health.

Observe your symptoms and their associated feelings and judgments.

Fully access this awareness, and flow the feelings and representations into your left hand and become an image.

Thank the symptoms and elicit its positive intentions.

Thank your symptoms and recognize them for communicating.

Focus on your inner healer and its associate body area and feelings.

Flow the inner healer feelings into you right hand, and allow an image to emerge. Thank the aspect.

Learn of your inner healer’s positive intentions.

Appreciate your symptom’s communications and positive intentions.

Merge the two parts, encouraging their mutual acceptance.

Encourage the states to form a cooperative relationship in service of a larger vision and their own initial higher intentions.

Get the parts to agree to this.

Visualize healing energy as you integrate the two parts.

Affirm for yourself the significance of this new wholeness.

Take in these new energies, timeline to the beginning of your destiny with this energy, and move forward.

Share this experience and a metaphor for it with trusted others, and ask them to share a healing experience and metaphor for their healing.

Move into a new state of wellness through the healing powers of your body-mind.

Step 1: Enter a contemplative or spiritual state of mind. #

Step 2: Imagine yourself in an ideal state of health from the perspective of a third person. #

Imagine being completely physically healthy, with a clear mind, emotional balance, and grounded in physical strength. See yourself in this state from the third position.

Step 3: Observe your symptoms and their associated feelings and judgments. #

Switch your focus to your symptoms, noticing exactly where in your body you feel their presence. Notice that emotional feelings accompany that awareness. Identify what those emotions or judgments are.

Step 4: Flow the feelings and representations into your left hand as you fully access this awareness. #

Allow them to form an image. Raising your awareness of the symptoms to a full or intense level, along with their emotional or judgment aspects, Allow these feelings and representations to flow into your left hand as you allow your hand to open. Notice this flow with all the rep systems. Allow an image of the symptom and its feelings to form an image in your left hand.

Step 5: Express gratitude to the symptoms and elicit their positive intentions. #

Offer thanks to your symptom for revealing and offering itself. Ask your symptoms what they are trying to communicate to you. Inquire as to its positive intention and its purpose. Open your mind to a quiet, passive, listening state and notice what inner messages come through for you. If no positive intentions come through, you may be experiencing a “thought virus” expressed as symptoms. To test this, get in touch with an aspect of yourself that harbors this symptomatic state. One way to get in touch with this aspect of yourself is to kindly tell the symptoms that you are no longer a home for them, and that it is time for them to move into pure and useful energy. If any part of you is attached to the symptoms, then you may find that it becomes present and you can inquire as to the positive intentions that have led to this aspect harboring or encouraging the symptoms. If this is the case, do not be alarmed. We are going to work through it.

Step 6: Thank your symptoms for communicating with you. #

Once you have discovered these positive intentions, thank your symptoms for communicating with you. Recognize that they have been committed to the positive intentions that your harboring aspect has revealed to you.

Step 7: Focus on your inner healer and its associated body areas and feelings. #

Shift your focus to the aspect of you that wants health and wellness. We’ll refer to this as your inner healer. Notice exactly where in your body this aspect most obviously resides. Notice how this area feels to have this aspect present.

Step 8: Flow the inner healer feelings into your right hand, and allow an image to emerge. #

Step 9: Thank you for your consideration. #

Increase your sense of your inner healer to a higher or more intense level. Allow these feelings to flow into your right hand. Allow an image of this healing aspect to emerge. Thank this part for being present and connecting with you.

Step 9: Learn of your inner healer’s positive intentions. #

Ask your inner healer what its positive intentions are for you now. Access an open, receptive state of mind and receive whatever messages are available now.

Step 10: As you return your attention to your symptom, thank it for communicating with you. #

Offering appreciation for its commitment to its positive intentions

Step 11: Combine the two parts, promoting mutual acceptance. #

Imagine now that your symptom image and inner healer image are turning to face each other. Ask them to access states of understanding and appreciation, and to experience the other parts of value, but from their own perspective. Encourage this until you feel that each part accepts the other state’s positive intentions.

Step 12: Encourage the parts to form a cooperative relationship in service of a larger vision and their own initial higher intentions. #

Now explain to these parts that they need to work together in new, meaningful ways in order to produce value that expresses their highest intentions. Help them to discover their common mission in a spiritual sense. Convey how wonderful it feels to be part of a team, to build trust, and to begin to realize a great vision.

Step 13: Get the parts to agree to this. #

Recognize the abilities and resources of each part and how they can contribute to this vision and to realizing the higher positive vision of each part. They gain an ecological and congruent agreement from both parties to form a teamwork relationship that supports them in pursuing their individual and collective aims.

Step 14: Visualize healing energy as you integrate the two parts. #

Return to your contemplative or spiritual state, and experience energy flowing into you that is the perfect color and quality for harmonizing and balancing you. A djust the energy so that it is the perfect intensity, vibration, and quality to maximize your healing experience. Imagine your unbalanced energies being brought into this flow and converted into pure and useful energy. Turn your palms to face each other, and then slowly begin to bring them together. Encourage a healthy integration of your inner healer and symptom aspect. Watch them merge, bathed in your healing and balancing energies. See which new image emerges from this.

Step 15: Affirm to yourself the significance of this new wholeness. #

Tell yourself that you are creating personal wholeness as you join important NLP practitioner of yourself. Pay attention to your motives that are aligned with this; this tells you that this is what you truly want. Take time to notice how this is congruent for you, as it creates a new level of true alignment. If you find anything incongruent or non-ecological about this, you can work forward from step three to process any remaining issues. Combine the issues together as a symptom for the purpose of the pattern.

Step 16: Now bring the image of these integrated NLP practitioner into your heart as you notice the quality of energy or aura emanating from this new part. #

See it being emitted as another quality of healing energy that you can breath in with the rest of the healing energies that you are experiencing. Allow these energies to carry you back through time, prior to your birth, experiencing your being in the womb, and experiencing the dynamics through your lineage that led to your birth, back to the beginning of time that contained your destiny from the beginning. From that point, allow the forces of the universe to roll forward, bringing your healing and balancing energies through life, through your lineage, and into your present moment. Notice these forces bringing energy into your mind’s power, projecting a fully healed, physically capable, mentally clear, and calm state from which you can savor life. Observe as this wave of energy flows into your future.

Take some time to share this experience with others who you know to be able to talk about experiences of healing from a fairly aligned place. Ask them to share with you a brief metaphor that they feel represents a healing experience of theirs, and do the same for them.

Last Updated: December 25, 2025